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Anthropology Southern Africa | 2016

“Slow marriage,” “fast bogadi”: change and continuity in marriage in Botswana

Jacqueline Solway

Classic work on Tswana marriage emphasises that it is a process of becoming, involving a series of rituals and prestations characterised by a long period of socially productive ambiguity in which the status of the union, the spouses, their children and their broader families remain uncertain. Marriage was a “total social phenomenon” entailing the intermingling of the economic, social and political spheres and continual gift circulation, thereby fostering dense social networks. In the twenty-first century, relatively few people marry, marriage is largely a middle class phenomenon, and people marry in civil ceremonies such that marriage is virtually instantaneous. Associated rituals occur over one or two days and bridewealth [bogadi] is usually given at the time of marriage. This article examines what such a time contraction in the rituals and prestations means and what it might suggest about marriage, the person and kinship. I propose two ideal types to capture this evolving process, “slow marriage” to depict marriages in the past and “fast bogadi’ to characterize contemporary marriages in which the rituals and gifts exchanged between marrying families occur over a brief time period. I draw on the concept of “possessive individualism” to help understand changing notions of personhood.


Journal of Southern African Studies | 1998

Taking stock in the Kalahari: accumulation and resistance on the Southern African periphery

Jacqueline Solway

This paper examines the relationship between patterns of accumulation, the cultural forms through which change is understood and experienced, and resistance in the Kalahari, Botswana. The paper argues that contemporary forms of accumulation and social differentiation constitute a break from past forms and are resulting in an uneven process of class formation. However, these changes can be assimilated, to a large degree, within existing ideological and behavioural models so that discontinuity is not always evident. As a result the process of change is muted, and a minimum of conflict accompanies a major transformation. The social domains which do become contested are those in which structural change produces a situation in which the moral grounds of the kin‐based community are violated. The paper acknowledges the complexities of power as well as the forces of cohesion and consensus which exist simultaneously in the Kalahari and in which any analysis of resistance must be contextualized.


Hau: The Journal of Ethnographic Theory | 2016

Voicing the ancestors: Readings in memory of George Stocking

Richard Handler; Ira Bashkow; Jacqueline Solway; Lee D. Baker; Gregory Schrempp

In this Forum, four anthropologists have chosen an “ancestral” figure to give voice to. Anthropologists’ ancestors are generally teachers, mentors, or, less proximally, canonized scholars of prior generations. Anthropologists draw on their ancestors for theoretical wisdom and practical guidance. Yet ancestors are not always shared broadly across our discipline, and they can easily fall into oblivion. Giving voice to them, publicly, allows each contributor to comment on an important scholar and invites readers to renew their acquaintance with disciplinary ghosts who still have much to teach us.


African Studies Review | 2003

Fragmented Worlds, Coherent Lives: The Politics of Difference in Botswana

Jacqueline Solway

Foreword Introduction Fragmented Lives Gender, Conjugality, and Family Making a Living, Making a Home Historical Narratives as Identity Discourses The Politics of Space and Place Social Space, Collective Identity, and Moments of Resistance Ethnecizing Gender, Engendering the Ethnic Other Conclusions Bibliography Index


Journal of Southern African Studies | 2002

Navigating the 'Neutral' State: 'Minority' Rights in Botswana

Jacqueline Solway


American Anthropologist | 2016

The Making of an African Working Class: Politics, Law, and Cultural Protest in the Manual Workers’ Union of Botswana by Pnina Werbner. London: Pluto, 2014. 320 pp.

Jacqueline Solway


American Anthropologist | 2004

In the Arms of Africa: The Life of Colin Turnbull

Jacqueline Solway


American Anthropologist | 2004

In the Arms of Africa: The Life of Colin Turnbull:In the Arms of Africa: The Life of Colin Turnbull.

Jacqueline Solway


American Anthropologist | 1999

In the Shadow of Marriage: Gender and Justice in an African Community

Jacqueline Solway


American Ethnologist | 1994

Hunters and Herders of Southern Africa: A Comparative Ethnography of the Khoisan Peoples. ALAN BARNARD

Jacqueline Solway

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